2019-20 season | MTYP – Manitoba Theatre for Young People

Three looks of the Frog in A Year With Frog and Toad

A Year With Frog and Toad designer inspired by nature

Some of Jackie Chau's inventive costumes from A Year With Frog and Toad A Year With Frog and Toad designer inspired by nature Set and costume designer Jackie Chau wants to inspire kids to have a relationship with nature. She imagines the audiences lying on their stomachs surrounded by tall grass on a hot summer day, when watching A Year ...

STUDENT LOVES SINGING ONLINE

STUDENT LOVES SINGING ONLINE Twelve-year-old Madilyne Bernat (everyone calls her Madi) had just registered for spring classes at MTYP when the public health crisis put those plans on hold. The grade eight student, who attends Springfield Middle School in the town of Oakbank (a short drive from Winnipeg), would have been attending MTYP for the first time. When Madi found ...

MTYP's Creator's Unit talks about a performance they've just seen

MTYP Creator’s Unit develops new voices

MTYP's Creator's Unit in a workshop MTYP Creator’s Unit develops new voices Four years ago, MTYP started a Creator’s Unit. Headed by local artists Andraea Sartison and Rick Chafe, the Creator’s Unit includes roughly ten budding writers who meet monthly to encourage them and to work on their latest projects. “We’re giving people a process in which they can create ...

YOUNG COMPANY SOARS IN PETER PAN PREQUEL

YOUNG COMPANY SOARS IN PETER PAN PREQUEL Who was Peter Pan before Neverland? Find out this March 6th and 7th, as MTYP Theatre School’s Young Company presents Rick Elice’s Peter and the Starcatcher. Fly away on a fantastical journey full of bloodthirsty pirates, dreamy mermaids, and a thirteen-year-old girl who just might save the world. The Young Company’s production features ...

Doggie tale more than child’s play — MTYP production teaches youngsters life has ups and downs

New Owner production photo Doggie tale more than child’s play — MTYP production teaches youngsters life has ups and downs A product of the Australian theatre company The Last Great Hunt, Manitoba Theatre for Young People’s new touring show, New Owner, tells a modest, wordless story in outsize, grand style. More than just a shaggy-dog story, it represents within its modest ...

Snail’s favourite holiday memory

Snail’s favourite holiday memory The actor playing Snail, along with a few more characters, in A Year With Frog and Toad wants to share. Growing up, Ari Weinberg loved Chanukah. Here is his favourite memory and recipe! "My favourite holiday tradition is my family Chanukah party. Every year, we congregate the party room at my grandparents’ apartment building. We’re a ...